I love it when I come across some bit of CSS I’ve never heard of before. Take this article on the text-emphasis property . “The what property?”, I hear you ask. That was my reaction too...
If you’re a fan of gratuitous initialisms , you’ll love Google’s core web vitals . Just get a load of the obfuscation in the important-sounding metrics like CLS, FCP, LCP, and more. To be...
When I wrote about my time in Amsterdam last week , I mentioned the task that the students were given: > They’re given a PDF inheritance-tax form and told to convert it > for the...
I was having a discussion with some people recently about writing. It was quite cathartic. Everyone was sharing the kinds of things that their inner critic tells them. We were all encouraging eac...
I was in Amsterdam last week. Usually I’m in that city for an event like the excellent CSS Day . Not this time. I was there as a guest of Vasilis . He invited me over to bother his students at ...
The past weekend’s Indie Web Camp Brighton was wonderful! Many thanks to Mark and Paul for all their work putting it together. There was a great turn-out. It felt like the perfect time for...
I’m at day two of Indie Web Camp Brighton . Day one was excellent. It was really hard to choose which sessions to go to because they all sounded interesting. That’s a good problem to have. ...
The third Patterns Day happened yesterday. It was lovely! The last time we had a Patterns Day was in 2019 . After five years it felt very, very good to be back in the beautiful Duke Of York’...
Just look at who’s speaking at UX London this year ! That’s a damned fine line-up, if I do say so myself. Which I do. If you haven’t procured a ticket yet, allow me to gently remind you ...
2010 was a good year for me. I moved into a new home. Salter Cane released an album. We had a really good dConstruct . And I wrote a book. It was HTML5 For Web Designers , the very first titl...